Piano.



PATENTED MAY 2, 1905.

G. ANDERSON.

PIANO.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 4. 1905.

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at each end thereof is secured a bar 1.

UNITED STATES Patented May 2, 1905.

GUST ANDERSON, OF ROCKFORD, ILLINOIS.

PIANO.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 788,693, dated May 2, 1905,

Application filed January 4, 1905- Serial No. 239,560}- T (LZZ whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, GUST ANDERSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rockford, in the county of Winnebago and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Pianos, of which the following is a specification.

The object of this invention is to provide means for pivotally supporting the front of a piano.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective View of the upper portion of a piano, showing the pivoted front. Fig. 2 is a transverse section through the front, showing its supports. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the inner face of the front.

The piano represented in the drawings in the main is of the usual construction, comprising the sides 1 and shelf 2. The front 3 in this instance extends across the piano between the sides 1. To the rear face of the front and The upper end of this bar has a pivotal connection with a support 5. This support has its lower end 6 reduced in size, and its upper end is offset and formed with the slot 7. To the lower end of the bar 4 is pivoted a link 8, its free end having a pivotal connection with the link 9, and the other end of the link 9 has a pivotal connection with the support 5 near its lower end. I lay no claim to the links 8 and 9 connecting the front with the sides of the piano, as such is old. A screw 10 is turned in engagement with the side of the piano. The lower reduced ends of the supports are placed in the recesses 11, formed in the shelf 2, and the upper slotted ends receive the screws 10. To the upper end of each of the supports is pivoted a catch 12, adapted to embrace the screws 10 and hold the upper ends of the supports in connection with the sides of the piano.

The bars 4 are connected to the back of the front of the piano, and the supports 5 are connected to the bars, so that the front and its supports are made up before the front is placed in connection with the piano-casing. The front is connected to the casing by inserting the lower ends of the supports in the recesses 11 and forming a connection of the upper ends of the supports with the screws 10. The link connection between the bars and their supports acts as a brace and holds the lower end of the front extended, as shown in dotted lines, Fig. 2.

I claim as my invention 1. In a piano, a front, two bars secured to the front, two supports, one pivotally connected to each bar near its upper end, and links forming a connection between the bars and the supports near their lower ends.

2. In a piano, a front, two bars secured to the front, two supports, one pivotally connected to each bar near its upper end, and links forming a connection between the bars and the supports near the lower ends, the lower ends of the supports being reduced in size, and their upper ends being slotted, and a catch pivoted to the upper end adapted to close the slot.

GUST ANDERSON. Witnesses:

A. D. BEHEL, E. BEHEL. 

